Three Rivers, Quebec, now generally known in both English and French as Trois-Rivières, is the second oldest city in Quebec, being founded in 1634, after Quebec City and before Montréal. It’s name comes from the fact that the St. Maurice River joins the St. Lawrence, divided into three tributaries by two islands.
Following the 1971 ***Islands ***tour, every musician in King Crimson, except founder Robert Fripp, quit to join blues legend Alexis Korner’s new band, Snape.
The Republic of the Phillpines is an archipelago comprising 7,107 islands.
Queen Victoria transferred the Arctic Archipelago to Canada by an order-in-council under the Royal Prerogative in 1880.
When Queen Victoria got married, she was the one who proposed to her husband-to-be, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Albert and Victoria were first cousins, and they had nine children together.
Keith Emerson’s old band, the Nice, burned the U.S. flag on stage while playing Leonard Bernstein’s “America” (from West Side Story) at the Royal Albert Hall.
Royal Albert Hall has been in continuous use since it was opened in March 1871. The dog trick act Ashleigh and Pudsey, winners of the 2012 Britain’s Got Talent, made Hall history when Pudsey became the first dog to perform at the Hall, doing it in style in front of The Queen.
According to Paul McCartney and John Lennon it takes 4000 rather small holes to fill the Albert Hall. Someone counted them all.
Former Beatle Paul McCartney is often referred to as “Macca” by the British tabloids. Michael Jackson, in his day, was called “Jacko” (leading to the memorable headline, “Wacko Jacko”).
Paul McCartney had two great-great grandmothers both named Jane, great-grandparents and grandparents named Owen and Mary (Owen and Mary’s son Owen married a Mary), his wife Linda had two grandmothers named Stella, Paul has an adopted daughter and a wife both named Heather,
and his first two sons-in-law are Alistair and Alasdhair.
J. Owen “Chief” Wilson set an all-but-unbreakable record by hitting 36 triples for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1912.
Hall of Fame pitcher Charles Albert “Chief” Bender, an Ojibwa from Minnesota, is often credited as the first to use the slider, then called a “nickel curve”, in the 1910s for the Philadelphia Athletics. Bender used his slider to help him achieve a no-hitter and win 212 games in his career.
Following the 1914 season, Bender jumped from the Athletics to the Baltimore Terrapins of the upstart Federal League. Bender’s record slumped from 17-3 for a World Series runner-up in '14 to 4-16 for a club which finished 47-107 in '15. Meanwhile, the Athletics, who had sold off many of their stars, plummeted from 99-53 to 43-109 over the two-year stretch.
Wrigley Field was originally named Weeghman Field, for the owner of the Federal League’s Chicago Whales, who were intended to be its first occupants. Weeghman sold the park to Cubs owner Phillip K. Wrigley when the league folded first.
Sperm whales, the largest toothed whales, live largely on squid.
The largest mountain in the Solar System is on Mars - Olympus Mons.
Joseph R. “Joe” Redner is the owner of the Mons Venus, a nude strip club in Tampa, Florida, and is known as the father of the nude lap dance.
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The first graded road built in Florida was Old Kings Road in 1763, named for King George III of England. (But This was still Spanish territory then, yes? Were they just being friendly?)
King George III of Great Britain issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 to provide for government in four territories Britain had won in the Seven Years War: Quebec, East Florida, West Florida, and Grenada. The Proclamation also attempted to restrict western settlement until the British government had reached treaties with the Indian populations. In the 13 colonies, the Proclamation’s restriction on settlement became one of the grievances which contributed to the American Revolution, but in Canada, the Proclamation continues to have constitutional status because of its guarantee of aboriginal title.
In the USA the Royal Proclamation of 1763 ended with the Revolutionary War.